Kyle Lowry

When it ended Friday night, Victor Oladipo started to walk toward the Orlando Magic locker room. He trudged only a few feet before he sat down on Amway Center's parquet court, his mouthpiece jutting out of his mouth as he shook his head. The Magic had lost to the Toronto Raptors 101-99 after a frenetic final two minutes. It stung. "It's really tough," Oladipo said after he returned to the Magic's locker room. "There's a lot of things I want to take back from that game, a lot of things that I feel like I could've done better. But it's a learning process, man, and it's tough." It was tough, in part, because the final minutes felt like...

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